Episode Details

"Embarrassed."

"Ashamed."

"Confused."

"Ambivalent."

"Frightened."

Last week, I sat with a group of Jews in a synagogue. It was an adult education session, and I had asked them to complete the following sentence: “When I think of Israel, I am…”

Those were the reactions – what goes through their minds as they think about Israel, and what goes through their souls as they think about Israel.

I was shocked, but I was not entirely surprised.

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